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[Alan]

I've run Microsoft anti spyware which says it has found
and removed this malware. However Webroot Spy Audit says
its still there!!!

Any ideas as to who to believe?

 

[Larry Woodworth]

-----Original Message-----
I've run Microsoft anti spyware which says it has found
and removed this malware. However Webroot Spy Audit says
its still there!!!

Any ideas as to who to believe?
.
With the 42 gazillion variants (OK, maybe that's an

exaggeration) of CWS out there, who can keep up? I will
say that I've never heard of "Webroot Spy Audit" so I
can't comment on whether it is helping the problem or
part of the cause. We've only used Ad-Aware SE Pro and
the MS AntiSpyware Beta at our schools.

 

[Dave Nickason]

CWS is fairly persistent. I found and reportedly removed
it with the beta, but it comes right back after a
reboot. I didn't find the beta at all effective against
CWS. In my case, it was a business PC, so I flattened it
and reinstalled everything from scratch. CWS appears to
be an area where the beta could use some work.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Did you try a scan and remove in safe mode? I removed a CWS finding
yesterday, along with 19 other things. I did a single scan booted normally,
and then another in safe mode which found only an unnamed browser hijack
attempt, but I also found several bits and pieces using the System
Explorers, my native curiosity/background knowledge, and virustotal to test
the critters I found.